Traditionally crafted Athabascan hunting-style snowshoe using local birch for the frames. The red paint on these snowshoes is in (4a44247d-1720-46c1-bfe9-05866a1f4ead) (cropped)

Image of snowshoes with birch frames.
Traditionally crafted Athabascan hunting-style snowshoe using local birch for the frames. The red paint on these snowshoes is in keeping with the long-standing tradition of painting snowshoes with red ochre so, in part, the blood stains from animals taken on hunting trips would not show.
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